Dayle Sharp / Judith Paré
Palliative Care and Hospice Nursing: Dignity of Choice informs and guides healthcare professionals in applying palliative and hospice care concepts to real-world patient situations. The text concentrates on enhancing palliative and hospice care for individuals from various age groups, emphasizing life-limiting illness management for patients and their families. Bridging serious illness issues with practical applications, this workbook includes case studies echoing genuine scenarios with altered demographics for privacy.Organized in two parts, the workbook explores palliative care-focusing on quality-of-life enhancement and minimizing suffering through pain and problem assessment and treatment-and hospice care, which emphasizes holistic comfort for terminally ill patients. The workbook content is designed to align with the AACN New Essentials and the Primary Palliative Care Competencies frameworks to facilitate understanding and practical alignment of educational standards.Palliative Care and Hospice Nursing is ideal for advanced nursing courses and programs and could also serve as supplementary material in medical programs focused on geriatrics, oncology, and palliative medicine.
